Dr. Carolina Maciel
Dr. Carolina Maciel is an experienced animal law advocate with a specialty in the intersection of animal protection measures with the multilateral trading system administered by the World Trade Organization. She is currently the Senior Advisor on International Trade Law & Policy for the World Federation for Animals (WFA), a newly established coalition of non-governmental organizations working at the international level on policy making. She also serves as Chair of the America Regional Working Group of the International Coalition for Animal Welfare (ICFAW), which is an organization that has an agreement of collaboration with the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH). Dr. Maciel has also served for almost five years as the Country Director for Humane Society International in Brazil, where she spearheaded advocacy efforts for the elimination of animal testing for cosmetics and intensive confinements for pigs and laying hens. Dr. Maciel is a registered attorney of the Brazilian Bar Association. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wageningen (The Netherlands) on the topic of farm animal welfare governance, and a master’s degree in Political Sociology from the University of Santa Catarina (Brazil).